51.   Pioneers also nearly eradicated beavers, a change that brought flooding that probably killed off eggs and young locusts.

52.   Photographers praised collective farming long after Stalin engineered a famine to kill off thousands upon thousands of farmers who resisted collectivization.

53.   Reportedly Kirk dies in this one -- but you remember what happened when they tried to kill off Spock.

54.   Second, there will be plenty of parsing of interoffice e-mails and other exchanges that the government claims show that Microsoft was eager to kill off Netscape.

55.   Several GOP staffers voiced optimism that they could kill off the plan before it became part of any preliminary budget.

56.   Slowly and surely, these shopping habits killed off Dunn Toys and Hobbies, just as it has other toy stores in other downtowns all over the country.

57.   So what, then, is killing off the Steller sea lion?

58.   Some experts believe the frosty New England winters kill off much of the bacteria.

59.   Such graphic tinkering hardly seems a marketing change of the magnitude, say, of the attempt by Quaker Oats Co. to kill off its Snapple Lady.

60.   Taylor was pleased when the Kings dominated play in the first period Sunday and opened the second by killing off an Ian Laperriere penalty.